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flutternetwork / WiFiFlutter

Flutter plugin suite for various WiFi services.
https://wifi.flutternetwork.dev
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FR: Additional protocol support #140

Closed daadu closed 3 years ago

daadu commented 3 years ago
daadu commented 3 years ago

@mavyfaby @Niek @fedepell @diegotori

Give me your suggestions on this.

I mostly use this package so that users can provision IoT devices.

mavyfaby commented 3 years ago

Yes, if we implement these functions, it will be great. Some of these features aren't yet implemented in flutter plugins or packages, maybe it's implemented but they lack functionalities. This is the time we implement so that this package will have more capabilities as IoT package.

diegotori commented 3 years ago

Definitely could use a package that handles multiple Wi-Fi protocols on Android. However, we have to make it very clear in terms of what is supported and in what minimum version of Android. That and making sure that if we don't support it on iOS we make it very clear. Otherwise, all good from my end.

daadu commented 3 years ago

However, we have to make it very clear in terms of what is supported and in what minimum version of Android. That and making sure that if we don't support it on iOS we make it very clear. Otherwise, all good from my end.

@diegotori That goes without saying, will have tables as we have in the current README.

scott-olero commented 3 years ago

in need of the WIFI-RTT Android native implementation with flutter. can you email me to discuss? (oleroscott@gmail.com)

fedepell commented 3 years ago

@daadu sounds of course good to me! Not a small work to do and for sure (as already said) it may be hard to make it supported also on iOS (ie. AFAIK iOS has another similar peer-to-peer protocol called AirDrop or so).

Note for wifi-direct as I already looked once around this also exists: https://github.com/mintware-de/flutter_p2p

daadu commented 3 years ago

@fedepell Thanks for pointing flutter_p2p, looks like it is archived and no more maintained.

daadu commented 3 years ago

Additional Doc for iOS - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1942/_index.html - defines different Wifi APIs and there use cases in iOS

One issue we might have is the plugin size increasing - I think the better idea would be to maintain it as separate plugin under same repo (like firebase or plus_plugins). In this case user can pick and choose which functions he wants. Also it would be easier to maintain it - we can assign codeowner and what not - so that, someone actively using that plugin is responsible for it.

Let me know your views.

daadu commented 3 years ago

The above includes, breaking the current plugin too - into two - one for WIFi STA and one for WiFi AP/Hostpost.

daadu commented 3 years ago

Since we are talking reforms I have added another issue #143 that could cause breaking change. Give your views there too.

daadu commented 3 years ago

@fedepell

I contacted @mintware-de (maintainer of flutter_p2p), He is ok with us merging and maintaing flutter_p2p.

daadu commented 3 years ago

@fedepell p2p in iOS is limited to connecting to Apple Devices only. Since the underlying protocol is not disclosed.

More docs related to MPC:

soockee commented 3 years ago

Hi folks, I am a flutter noob. Since I want to implement multi-or trilateration with the WiFi_RTT protocol, while trying out flutter, I require this for my use case.

How difficult/how much time are you estimating for the implementation of RTT? :)

If this is too deep/hard, I won't even try and go for a android native app, even tho I want to try to use flutter :)

fedepell commented 3 years ago

Looking at https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/wifi-rtt it doesn't seem that there is too much stuff to do IMO, it's basically wrapping the parts described from Setup to Interpret ranging results sections. The fact is that you need a device (and an access point) that supports it to do the development, but I guess you should have those since you are asking :)

SimonMonnier commented 3 years ago

Hello, wifi aware in flutter would be really cool

daadu commented 3 years ago

Hello everyone,

In order to maintain the project as it grows, I have decided to break wifi_iot to multiple plugins [#186]. New protocols will have there own plugins - as of now have planned wifi_aware [#191] and wifi_rtt [#192].

I am closing this issue and further discussion should be done on those threads.